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Saturday, October 27, 2012

For the past several days, we’ve been getting dire warnings about the impending storm that’s coming our way. We’ve had some severe weather in the past, and this hurricane could really be something big, something unique.

I think we’re prepared, and there’s just some odds and ends I have to go out for tomorrow that I neglected to do today. But one thing I did accomplish today is to take some images of the property before most of the leaves are gone.

I spent part of the day taking pictures and editing them, rather than cleaning.

I look at my images, and ask myself if I would rather have a clean house.

Or look at these lovely images.

And the answer is that I would rather have a cleaning person.

I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.

The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes, new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind, and the old things go, not one lasts.

~ Carl Sandburg, 1918

falling leaves

hide the path

so quietly

~John Bailey

No spring nor summer beauty hath such graceAs I have seen in one autumnal face.~John Donne

I love that this has looked pretty much the same since 1810.

The clouds rolled in overnight, and it was fairly quiet early this morning when I left to get the new car serviced for its first oil change. I can’t believe it already has over 3,900 miles on it and is only two months old.

I wish our mail was delivered to the box you see in the photo above. They stopped doing that years ago when the people who lived here passed away. But I like seeing the mailbox there.

I figured today might be my last chance to get any autumn color. Tomorrow the winds are supposed to pick up a little, and it’s difficult using a macro lens on leaves that are blowing, you know.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

~Hal Borland

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I hope that if you live in the States and you’re in the path of this hurricane, that you’ll be safe. I’ll keep you posted from this end – here at the head of the Chesapeake Bay.

42 comments:

I'm glad you didn't clean so that we could enjoy these beautiful images. I decided that I will have lots of time to clean over the next few days when I'm locked inside, but I would rather have a cleaning person too! I hope the manor stands strong against the storm as she has for so many years!

Yes, our colorful leaves will soon be gone, either slowly or in one fail swoop by hurricane force winds. Either way, they disappear each year. So glad you took the time to get some photos before that nasty Sandy arrives!

Beautiful autumn colours. What does cleaning matter when you can capture images such as this.We are hearing about your hurricane and how it might meet a storm and thus become even more disastrous, with high tides too. I do hope things are not as bad as they are predicted to be. I shall be thinking of you.

lovely.... we are not getting much color down here as it has been so stinkin' hot until yesterday. So thanks for sharing yours!

yes... I would rather have a cleaning person :) My mom came through town yesterday and gave me some "Maria money" so I can get my house cleaned properly; I know a lovely woman named Maria that is a dear and knows how to really get things cleaned. Too bad I can't have her on a regular basis but at least my mom takes pity on me from time to time :)

I think you made a wise choice.. beautiful images vs. cleaning. You may be stuck in the house for a while with plenty of time to clean.. or read, or knit!I hope the storm turns out to be a lot more mild than they anticipate. My step mom just flew from California to Albany NY yesterday on her first Red Cross deployment.. She is a little scared.. we don't get storms like this in CA. Good luck!

Glad your manor house is up on its little hill. Will be thinking of you out here in California (where we did have a wee little earthquake this morning, I am told). Nothing like what the weather folks are predicting for the east coast. Hope you all stay safe.

Stay safe up there, Country Girl! We are all hunkered down in the DC area... EVERYTHING is closed. Metro rail and bus is shut down pre-emptively. It feels strange now because there's just rain, not much wind. Soon, I hear...

Ah...such dreamy picture!I would rather have a cleaning person, too, Kate! That is one of my dreams...that and moving closer to our son and his family so I can watch my grandchildren grow up...but neither is going to happen.

My name is Kate. I live in Maryland with a border collie named George in an old manor house that predates the Revolutionary War. I began this blog in 2007 to share my photography with my family and friends. Welcome.

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